At 1 pm on 12 April, Ofer Lahav, Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London, will give a public lecture at the RAS on the 75% of the Universe thought to be made up of the mysterious â€˜Dark Energyâ€™. Professor Lahav will review the chequered history of the idea of Dark Energy, dating back not only to Einsteinâ€™s proposal in 1917, but ...

Hi all, everyone is welcome to come (with or without scope) to our next public observing event which will be on the evening of Saturday 9th April. This will be one of our "Tour of the Night Sky" series, this time labelled "Moon Watch & Saturn Watch". Location is Newlands Corner, just outside Guildford's light pollution. Courtesy of Surrey WildLife Trust we have the use of the Visitor Centre, ...

The next meeting of the Baker street irregular astronomers will take place on Wednesday 30th March at our usual place the Hub in Regent's park London between 18:30 and 22:00. I hope to see you down there.

This just received (yes, just received...) from the University of Birmingham... an event this coming weekend.

(BTW Anu Ojha will be there and I defy you to ask him something he does not know about spaceflight - that man's a walking encyclopedia. Last year, the National Space Centre in Leicester put on a quiz and he actually knew more answers than a real astronaut!)

Are they out there? Intelligent beings from another world. Will we ever make contact with them? Is it
even sensible to make guesses about whether life exists in other galaxies billions of light years from our
own? ...

Get your (free) tickets now to see our friends Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest at the University of Leicester:

COSMIC QUEST â€“ A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

Two of the countryâ€™s most respected astronomers, both graduates of the University of Leicester, will take a look at some of the inspirational characters and outright mavericks who have expanded the boundaries of astronomy.

Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest are this yearâ€™s speakers at the 2011 University of ...